West Amwell Township postpones auction of farmland to October

WEST AMWELL — The township’s auction of about 130 acres along Route 179 has been postponed to October at a date to be selected by the Township Committee. The postponement was made to give the township Open Space Committee more time to advertise the auction.

The auction had been scheduled for Aug. 27. The land is designated as Block 8, Lots 20 and 36, and it is between Route 179 and the Rocktown-Lambertville Road, just southwest of the strip mall that contains the county library branch. It had been the Coleman farm.

The acreage is preserved farmland that had been purchased from Toll Brothers with funds from the state, the township, the county and the Hunterdon Land Trust. The land comes with an easement for a publicly accessible walking trail.